The Man With No Name

Back from Vacation

Actually, I’ve been back for a week, but my first week back was pretty strange. I had a weird delayed stress reaction for a few days that I’m still feeling the aftereffects from. My arms and legs would feel all atrophied and tingly. Sleep would make it feel better, and certain stress-reduction decisions (like choosing to delay or punt on certain commitments) would help a lot. It didn’t help that when I was on vacation and away from Portland, I started paging through match.com a little more and ended up writing a few women. When I came back I was all of a sudden in a position where I had to stack up a couple of “first meetings”, which I just found completely nerve-wracking. After meeting them all, which the interesting-to-fair-to-bleah results you’d expect from online dating, I’m completely ready to take a break from it for right now.

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2 comments on “Back from Vacation”

Welcome back from vacation — hope you’re re-adjustment isn’t too painful. I find that it often takes as long to recover from being away as the length of time I was away!

The reason I’m writing you is that I read in a old posting on museworld.com that you had developed some todo list software which tracks dependencies. Did that ever make it to a distributable state? I’d love to check it out, as I had some of the same thoughts in terms of showing only what is possible to do in this moment. Surely it’s possible to do this for daily tasks without resorting to a full project management scheduler!

I have one that is privately available on request. It’s funny though that someone would ask, because I just went through a big phase of trying to find some prioritization software for myself – and other friends have also, independently of me.

My big challenge is resource allocation. I’m one guy, but I have several clients, none of which know or care about each other – so I have to figure out how to prioritize everyone with the limited number of hours I have each day. It’s dreadfully confusing.

I’m playing around a little bit with OmniPlan, which seems to have possibilities. Also, Merlin. But none of these project trackers really seem to do very well with managing a set of resources that is working on several different projects at once. Still evaluating.